Magento 2 run a specific Cron without cron:run CLI command?

Question

To make a long story short xdebug will not reliably stop on the breakpoints in my cron files when using the typical:

php bin/magento cron:run

Xdebug is all setup properly and sometimes it will work but 85% of the time it will not and just hang in CLI until I turn off listen for connections in phpstorm.

Is there a way to run just one cron file somehow? I had to actually copy and paste the contents of my cron file to a separate console command to test it properly in xdebug which is not ideal.

In Magento 1.x I used to use the AOE Scheduler for testing cron jobs with Xdebug by going to the admin, checkboxing the one I wanted, and choosing run from the dropdown and it worked fine.

I'm looking to use something like:

php bin/magento modulename:cronjob

which should always run the cron even if it is not scheduled.

Answer 1

Think simple! The Cron class is a "normal" class. We can use a Playground to test our Cron: How can I bootstrap Magento 2 in a test.php script?. The Object Manager will create our Cron Object. And then, we can test our Cron by calling the url directly on Browser.

** Note if using Nginx you can put these files in the pub/ folder and adjust the require path for the Test.php file to require '../app/bootstrap.php';

Test.php

<?php
require __DIR__ . '/app/bootstrap.php';
$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
/** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */
$app = $bootstrap->createApplication('TestApp');
$bootstrap->run($app);

TestApp.php

 public function launch()
 {
        /** @var \Vendor\Module\Cron\Test $cron */
        $cron = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()
            ->create('Vendor\Module\Cron\Test');

        $cron->execute();

        return $this->_response;

 }

Answer 2

On option to save in the development time would be to use N98MageRun for Magento 2.

This has the wonderful commands sys:cron:list and sys:cron:run.

Using these commands you will be able to find the specific job code for your cron and then trigger just that cron from the command line.

It can easily be installed via composer require --dev n98/magerun2 and I would recommend it should be a go to for a dev installation when working with Magento 2

Answer 3

You can achieve using two files:

create folder and class in root of project like:

crons/CronprocessApp.php

    <?php
use Magento\Framework\App\Config\ScopeConfigInterface;
use Magento\Framework\App\Filesystem\DirectoryList;
use phpseclib\Net\SFTP;
use phpseclib\Crypt\RSA;

class CronprocessApp
    extends \Magento\Framework\App\Http
    implements \Magento\Framework\AppInterface{

    public function __construct(
    \Magento\Framework\App\State $state,\Magento\Framework\App\Response\Http $response)
    {
        $this->_response = $response;
        //$state->setAreaCode('any area'); // or 'adminhtml', depending on your needs
        $state->setAreaCode('adminhtml'); // or 'adminhtml', depending on your needs
    }
    public function launch()
    {
        /** @var \Vendor\Module\Cron\Test $cron */
        $cron = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()
            ->create('Custom\Preorder\Cron\ChangeVisiblityNonPreorderProduct'); //pass the name of your cron class path 
        $cron->execute();       


        return $this->_response;

    }
    public function catchException(\Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap $bootstrap, \Exception $exception)
    {
        return false;
    }
}
?>

Create another class file:

crons/Cronprocess.php

 <?php
require __DIR__ . '/../app/bootstrap.php';
require __DIR__ . '/../crons/cronprocessApp.php';

$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
/** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */
$app = $bootstrap->createApplication('CronprocessApp');
$bootstrap->run($app);

To Run cron go to cli with project root path and run below command:

php crons/cronprocess.php

Answer 4

It's very simple and easy to achive..

In Magento root I created PHP script file as below. If you are in magento 2.4.2 or newer version then change require 'app/bootstrap.php'; to require '../app/bootstrap.php'; because now pub is a root directory in latest magento

cron_run_direct_script.php

<?php

ini_set('memory_limit','2048M');

require 'app/bootstrap.php';

use Magento\Framework\App\Action\Context;
use Magento\Framework\App\Filesystem\DirectoryList;
use Magento\Framework\App\Response\Http\FileFactory;
use Magento\Framework\Filesystem;


class CronRunManually
    extends \Magento\Framework\App\Http
    implements \Magento\Framework\AppInterface
{
    public function launch()
    { 
      
       $this->_state->setAreaCode(\Magento\Framework\App\Area::AREA_ADMINHTML);
       $myClass = $this->_objectManager->create('Namespace\Module\Cron\YourCronFileName');
       $myClass->execute(); 
       return $this->_response;
    }

}

$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
/** @var \Magento\Framework\App\Http $app */
$app = $bootstrap->createApplication('CronRunManually');
$bootstrap->run($app);

Answer 5

You can use this module: https://github.com/Ethan3600/magento2-CronjobManager

bin/magento cronmanager:killjob - Kill cron jobs by code

bin/magento cronmanager:runjob - Run a specific cron job by its job_code

bin/magento cronmanager:showjobs - Show all cron job codes in Magento

Answer 6

Can't comment because of low reputation. IMO, the necessity to create 2 separate php files is not "easy". Easy would be bin/magento cron:jobname run.

Also, Magento doesn't by default allow arbitrary php code execution so wouldn't you have to whitelist it?

Answer should default by saying no, it is not possible "out of box", but it could be done if you create a script followed by the accepted answer.

Answer 7

Create this cronLaunch.php file in your magento root directory

<?php
use Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;

require __DIR__ . '/app/bootstrap.php';

//require '../../app/bootstrap.php';
if (php_sapi_name() !== 'cli' && isset($_GET['job'])) {
    define('CRONJOBCLASS', $_GET['job']);
} elseif (php_sapi_name() !== 'cli') {
    die('Please add the class of the cron job you want to execute as a job parameter (?job=Vendor\Module\Class)');
} elseif (!isset($argv[1])) {
    die('Please add the class of the cron job you want to execute enclosed IN DOUBLE QUOTES as a parameter.' . PHP_EOL);
} else {
    define('CRONJOBCLASS', $argv[1]);
}

class CronRunner extends \Magento\Framework\App\Http
    implements \Magento\Framework\AppInterface
{

    public function __construct(
        \Magento\Framework\App\State $state,\Magento\Framework\App\Response\Http $response)
    {
        $this->_response = $response;
        $state->setAreaCode('adminhtml');
    }

    function launch()
    {
        $cron = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance()
            ->create(CRONJOBCLASS);

        $cron->execute();
        return $this->_response;
    }
}

$bootstrap = \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
$app = $bootstrap->createApplication('CronRunner');
$bootstrap->run($app);

and then you can run any specific cron job using 'job' parameter

http://your-website-url/cronLaunch.php?job=YourModule\SubfolderNamespace\Cron\YourClassFile

refer below picture for your cron class file placement

Note : Once you finished debuging remove this file from production and never keep this file on production/live servers !!

Happy Coding :)